VICTORY OVER JAPAN IN THE U.S. SERVICEMEN’S ESTIMATION


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The article considers the estimations of the victory in the Pacific War, the ones formulated by the U.S. servicemen in 1945. It analyzes the main features of the image of the atomic bomb, the offensive of the USSR and the surrender of Japan.

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Sergey Olegovich Buranok

Samara State Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities

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Email: witch-king-1@mail.ru

Candidate of Historical Sciences, associate professor of Department of General History and Teaching Methodology

443099, Russia, Samara, M. Gorky Str., 65/67

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